The University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) will be hosting its first Virtual Women’s Conference organised by its School of Electrical and Information Engineering.
The conference, which will be held online, focuses on students and staff in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields.
Between August and October applications were taken for participants to share their projects to present in the conference and win prizes.
“STEM fields have been historically dominated by men, however, in recent years there has been an increase in women applicants, graduates and postgraduate students in these fields. The Women’s conference will be an opportunity to shine a spotlight on the dynamic interventions that women are making in STEM. The Conference will host keynote speakers and provide an opportunity for women in undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, and staff members to present their research over a two day virtual conference,” reads the announcement.
While applications to participate have now ended registration to attend the virtual conference is still open until this Friday, 29th October.
Below you can find the key details for the conference as provided by Wits.
- “Date: 5th – 6th November
- Venue: To be confirmed, but likely to be on Microsoft Teams.
- Who can participate: All are welcome to attend! All female undergraduate, postgraduate or staff members in STEM fields who are currently developing a project or researching a topic that is related to engineering or can be applied to engineering are invited to submit abstracts and speak at the event.
- Prizes: There will be prizes for the technical talk for the undergraduates, and for the postgraduates and staff members. Cool prizes include and Amazon Echo-Dot, a Raspberry Pi and a Drone…
- Registration:Available here. Closes 29th October 2021.“
For those thinking of studying in the STEM sectors Wits also recently shared some student funding opportunities from the likes of Netflix and Huawei.
